"Ketchup left overnight on dinner plates has a longer half-life than radioactive waste."

“For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.”

Source : John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.76, Manchester University Press

“The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.”

Source : Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, www.encyclopedia.com. 2005.

“Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?”

“As long as you're open-minded you can learn stuff from anyone.”

“In the face of the idea that truth might afford the opposite of satisfaction and turn out to be completely shocking to humanity at any given historical moment, ... the fathers of pragmatism made the satisfaction of the subject the criterion of truth. For such a doctrine there is no possibility of rejecting or even criticizing any species of belief that is enjoyed by its adherents.”

Source : Max Horkheimer (2013). “Eclipse of Reason”, p.35, A&C Black

“She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door”

“Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.”

“I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you don't buy the concept from your friendly door-to-door lecture salesman.”